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"id": 890,
"title": "Nicholson School of Communication and Media",
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"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/calendar/890/nicholson-school-of-communication-and-media/"
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"id": "1217928",
"title": "NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Strategic Requirements of Leadership in Modern Combat",
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"description": "\u003Cp\u003ETHE UCF DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE PRESENTS:\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022text\u002Ddecoration: underline\u003B\u0022\u003ELieutenant General (retired) Mark Hertling\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003EAs the new Commander of the Army’s 1st Armored Division in 2007, Major General Mark Hertling was tasked to organize and deploy the Army’s first “plug\u002Dand\u002Dplay” task force as part of the political decision known as “the surge.” The task force pulled together forces from all over the U.S. and Europe, deploying them to Iraq and then partnering with five Iraqi Army Divisions, Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraqi border patrol and Iraqi police. Hertling’s Task Force Iron had a military and political mission: conduct counter\u002Dterrorism and counter\u002Dinsurgency operations while stabilizing the government and improving security in the seven northern provinces.\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003EHertling will discuss the dynamics of building a multi\u002Dnational force\u003B coordinating the actions of the US State Department, USAID, politicians in the Iraqi government and a variety of NGOs\u003B training and conducting operations with over 120,000 Iraqi security forces\u003B and countering a variety of terrorist organizations and an active insurgency.\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003ECo\u002D sponsored by the Office of Global Perspectives \u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReception to follow presentation\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/p\u003E",
"location": "Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom (Room 316CD)",
"location_url": "http://map.ucf.edu/?show\u003D52",
"starts": "Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:30:00 -0400",
"ends": "Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:00:00 -0400",
"ongoing": "False",
"category": "Speaker/Lecture/Seminar",
"tags": ["Lieutenant General retired Mark Hertling","UCF Political Science","UCF Global Perspectives","University of Central Florida"],
"contact_name": "UCF Political Science",
"contact_phone": "4078232608",
"contact_email": "politics@ucf.edu",
"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/event/1217928/national-security-in-the-21st-century-the-strategic-requirements-of-leadership-in-modern-combat/"
}